...me, that since no man spoke any kind of verse 10 extempore, that which was nearest nature was to be y preferred. I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing...speaking, and what 'is nearest the nature of a serious ls play : this last is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher...

...confessed 5 by me, that since no man spoke any kind of verse ex tempore, that which was nearest Nature was to be preferred. I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing...Nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse,...

...was nearest Nature was to be preferr'd. I answer you therefore, by distinguishing betwixt what isj nearest to the nature of Comedy, which is the imitation...Nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The Plot, the Characters, the Wit, the Passions, the Descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse,...

...confessed by me, that since no man spoke any kind of verse extempore, that which is nearest to nature was to be preferred. I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing...speaking, and what is nearest the nature of a serious 3 Quotations from John Dryden, Dramatic Essays. play; this last is indeed the representation of nature,...

...numbers.' — Gray's note to TA> Progrta e/Ptuy, 1754. 1 Tl.t Conquest of Granada, Part I, III, i. 3 '. . . the nature of a serious play ; this last is indeed...representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to a higher pitch '. — Of Dramatic Pety. The final paragraph of the Preface to Relipia Laiei has some...

...angemessene Weise - wiedergibt. Neander antwortet Crites auf dessen Frage nach dem Wesen der Tragödie: this last is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch. (DW I,87) (1) Diese Aussage fällt im "Essay" in der Debatte um den Reim. Dryden reagiert hiermit auf...

..."Heightened reality" suggests the elevation associated with epic and tragedy, as in Dryden's comment on "the nature of a serious play: this last is indeed...Nature, but 'tis Nature wrought up to an higher pitch." 3 Yet comic acting is the subject of discussion in Cynthia's Revels, and the point is to achieve a...

...of all literature and, again, of tragedy in particular as the most sublime literary genre: tragedy "is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch."14 It is as though tragedy were and were not a "representation." On the one hand it does imitate...

...to view, what the Poem onely does relate." «Cf. OOP (1668, p. 66; Ker, I, 100-101): A serious play "is indeed the representation of Nature, but 'tis...Nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The Plot, the Characters, the Wit, the Passions, the Descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse,...

...commented on the introduction, a decade earlier Dryden had thought rhyme was an important element of drama distinguishing "betwixt what is nearest to the nature...speaking, and what is nearest the nature of a serious play . . . 'tis Nature wrought up to a higher pitch." In the late 1670s, Dryden changed his mind, producing...